[parted-devel] Move Vista partition

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:28 +0100, May Doušak wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have 120gigs HDD with vista NTFS partition that starts at 40gigs.
> I'd like to "move" that partition to beginning of hard drive and
> expand it all over disk. Expanding ("to right") works in Vista, so the
> only thing I need is moving it "to the left".
> I've tried but the partition isn't even recognised correctly in parted
> (neither partition magic).
> 
> Are there any plans of supporting vista's ntfs in parted? Is there a
> timing? Maybe a devel version that already does it?
> 
> Thanks in  advance,

Vista NTFS is the newest version and we [the Linux community] know even
less about it than previous releases of NTFS.  We just recently fixed a
problem with libparted destroying Vista NTFS partitions that start at
the beginning of the drive.  That fix is in Fedora (will be in Fedora 7)
and to my knowledge is included in Debian testing or unstable right now
(Otavio?).

For us to offer any support for non-Linux filesystems at the
create/destroy/move level, we first need to revamp our underlying
filesystem code.  We have this in the plan for parted 2.x.

Thanks,

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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